CV

Education

  • Master of Fine Arts in Art Direction,
    Pratt Institute, New York, NY (2009)

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts & Photography,
    Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York (2006)

Accolades

2024

  • PS 180 Public Schools Art Mural

    2022

  • Governor’s Island Ice Sculpture Fest

  • Rockefeller Center & Climate Museum ‘“Flag Project’’

    2021

  • New York City Artist Corps Artist

    2017

  • Bronx TV ‘’Bronx Artist Show’’ with Daniel Hauben

    2015

  • BronxNet Television Artist Interview

    2014

  • Bronx Artist Documentary Project Book

  • Good Trade Book

    2013

  • Bronx Artist Day Proclamation with Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.

    2011

  • Indian Arts & Crafts Association Member-Artist

    2010

  • New York Daily News Write-up ‘’Never give up your Roots‘’

Residences

2024

  • C.A.L.L., NYC

  • Culture Hub, NYC 

  • VoM III & Residence Unlimited, NYC

    2023

  • NYC Bird Society Artist Residency

  • The Art center in Orange, Madison, VA

  • IPark, Lyme, Connecticut

  • Ma’s House Shinnecock Indigenous Reservation

    2021

  • Ucross Foundation Native American Artist Residency

  • Stonehenge Artist Residency

  • FABNYC/ LES History Project

  • San Antonio Jumpstart Artist Residency

  • Visual Arts Center of New Jersey Residency

    2020

  • Surf Point Foundation

    2019

  • Guttenberg Art Center

    2017

  • SpaceWorks (The Bronx Father Project), Bronx, NY

    2016

  • Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Queens, NY

  • Wave Hill Artist Residence, Riverdale, NY

  • The Kelly Street Residence with the Laundromat Project

    2015

  • Ace Hotel Artist Residence

    2014

  • The Laundromat Project, Bronx, NY

    2013

  • Brooklyn Friends School, Brooklyn, NY

  • Arteles Creative Center, Haukijärvi, Finland

    2012

  • Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics’ EMERGENYC

    2009

  • Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont

    2008

  • International Center of Photography NY Hall Farms Artist Fellowship & Residence

Artist Talks & Panels

2024

  • Montclair University Art Department

  • Tompkins Square Cultural Arts Center

    2023

  • NYC Advocacy for the Arts

    2022

  • Calabar Gallery, New York, NY

    2021

  • Artist Kwanzaa Kush Art Talk, Culture Push Inc. / Black Utopian Fellowship

  • East Coast Native American Artist Today, NY Queens Museum of the Arts

  • NYU (LES Black History of 1900s) FABNYC Young Artist Discussion

    2019

  • Drawing Center NYC Bronx Arts Space " Bronx Native Artist" Clifford Chance Lawyers

  • Minority Corporate Counsel Associate / Artist Talk

    2016

  • Speak Out Artist Talk, Bronx Arts Space

    2015

  • Shifting Sands New Dynamics in the Bronx Art Scene, Hosted by No Longer Empty

  • Emerging Leaders of New York Arts Creative Conversation at the Bronx Music Heritage Center Lab

  • New School Social Science class Artist Q&A with the Laundromat Project at the Kelly Street Garden

    2013

  • Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx Artist Talk

Grants and Awards

2024

  • MAP NYC Microgram 

  • Bronx Artist Technology Grant

    2022

  • LMCC Community Art Engagement Award

    2021

  • Bronx Council on the Arts (Photography Award)

  • The Laundromat Project Creative Action Fund

    2020

  • Puff Foundation

    2019

  • BRIO (Fine Art)

  • Rema Hort Mann Foundation (RHMF)

    2018

  • Artist Community Engagement Grantees in NYC

    2016

  • Artist Fund Grant NY

    2015

  • Citizens Committee for NYC Grant

    2014

  • BCA Community Artist Grant

    2010-2014

  • Bronx Museum, Artists in the Marketplace

    2010-2011

  • BRIO (the Bronx Recognizes Its Own)

    2009

  • Change Inc. Grant

    2007

  • Bronx Council on the Arts Fellowship, Art Handler

    2005

  • International Center of Photography Fellowship

    2001

  • Mark Rothko Fellowship With the MoMA Scholarship Award

    1999

  • Price Waterhouse Award

Fellowships

2024

  • VoM III Resident Unlimited Fellowship 

  • 2024 NYC Artist Advocacy Fellowship

    2021

  • Enfoco Photography Fellowship

  • San Antonio Jump-Start Performance Co. Artist fellowship

  • Culture Push 2021 Black Utopian Fellowship

  • FABNYC /Black and Indigenous Lower East Side History Fellowship

  • UCross Foundation Native American Fellowship

  • Works On Water / Tending the Edge Artist Fellowship

  • Ankhlave Garden Fellowship/ Queens botanical garden sculpture project

Public and Private Collections

  • MTA Artist Poster Collection 

  • Tompkins Square Cultural Center

  • The New York Women Foundation with the Bronx Museum of the Arts

  • Art Politics Magazine

  • Mayor’s Office of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

  • Allentown Native American Museum, Pennsylvania

  • Three Rivers Council American Indian Museum, Pennsylvania

Public Artwork

2024

  • PS 180 Public schools Art Mural

  • DOT Bronx, NY, Jennings Street Mural 

  • “Umbrellas “ Flatbush Junction Bid

    2023

  • Art Bridge, NYC 223 Street Bronx NY

    2022 

  • Amtrak Penn Station NYC Patchwork Travelers, Curated by Debra Simon of Common Ground Arts

  • Governor’s Island Ice Sculpture Show, Presented with LMCC.

  • Rockefeller Center Flag Project’s Third Annual Iteration; Rockefeller Center collaborated with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Climate Museum

  • Art Bridge, 213 & 214 Street Public Art Work, Bronx, NY

  • Drawing Room, Five Corners Library, Newark, NJ

  • CUNA Mutual Group Artist Commission Family and friends, Madison, WI

Workshops, Community Engagement,
Cultural and Environmental Programs

2024

  • The C.A.L.L

  • Governor’s Island / VoM lll

  • Bronx Children's Museum.

  • The Art Mobile 

  • Mason Gross School of the Arts

  • Rutgers University

  • Bronx River Garden

  • Kelly Street Garden

  • Corporate Arts Programs - Includes collaborations with Godiva, Gouache Paints Co. & Codax Works.

  • Queens Museum and Bronx Museum of the Arts. C.A.S.E.S.

Selected Group and Solo Exhibitions

2024

  • “Survival & Thriving”  VoM III, NY

  • “Junction” Mason Grove/Rutgers University

  • Tompkins Square Cultural Arts Center 

  • “Unwanted” Columbia University NYC

  • “Made Visible: Origins of Belonging “ Wabi Gallery, CT

  • “Uncontained: Reimagining Basketry” Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ

    2023

  • “The Voice of Many, The Voice of One: Collective Actions for Resistance and Mutual Aid”  The Clemente, NYC

  • New York Birds Society Artists Exhibit

  • West Harlem Art Fund “Winter Exhibition — Curb Appeal on Governor’s Island

    2022

  • OUTCROPPING / Indigenous Art Now Southampton Art Center NY, Curated by Jeremy Dennis

  • Protest Signs

  • From the Inside Out Exhibition, Somerville Arts Council, MA

  • Brooklyn Utopias at the Old Stone House Outdoor Exhibition

    2021

  • "C/O Commonwealth", Penn State University

  • Art on the Ave NYC Grand Central Station

  • Land Markings Old Stone House

  • "The Gathering", Creative Time/ Red Stage Performances

    2019

  • Survivance and Sovereignty on Turtle Island, KHC Queensborough College, Curated by Katherine Griefen & Danyelle Means

  • Urban Indians; Native New York Now, Museum of the City of New York, Curated by Rebecca Hayes & Jason Lujan

  • 'What's Love got to do with it " Drawing Center NYC, Curated by Lisa Sigal & Rosario Guiraldes

  • ArtConnectionNY, Art Fair, New York, Curated by Alexandra Wagle

  • Foreign/Familiar: Immigrants in the Bronx, Longwood Art Gallery, Curated by Julia Pimes Mata, Bryan E Glover, Alex Lappin

  • Race and Revolution, Smack Mellon, Curated by Kathy Fuller & Larry Ossei-Mensah

    2018

  • Open Session 13 Artist, Drawing Center NYC

    2017

  • Resistance After Nature; Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery Haverford College, Curated by Dylan Gauthier

  • Solo Show at Clifford Chance NYC Law Firm, Curated by Jacob Robichaux

  • Lesson Learned, St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn, NY, Curated by Che Baraka

    2016

  • Affordable Art Fair New York, Curated by Ayesha Williams

  • Bronx Africa, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY, Curated by LeRonn P. Brooks

  • Speak Out, Bronx Arts Space, Bronx, NY

  • Coney Island Boardwalk, Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Curated by Maria Roberts

  • Bronx Botanicals, The Point Campus, Bronx ,NY, Curated by Carrie Clark

    2015

  • Two Fold Artist –Teacher Dedalus Foundation Brooklyn NY. Curated by Cecile Chong

  • To Forgive and Remember, Judaica Museum, Riverdale, NY, Curated by Susan Chevlowe

  • People, Power & Protest SkyLight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY ,Curated by Daniel Simmons & Oshun Layne

  • RECALLed, AIOP Art in odd places, New York, NY, Curated by Sara Reisman & Kendal Henry

  • Peoples Protest, Metropolitan College of NY, Bronx, NY, Curated by Natasha R. Johnson

  • After Afropolitan Weeksville Heritage Center, Curated by Desiree Gordon & Aisha bellCaldwell

    2014

  • Trade Blanket/ Manta DeIntercambio Bronx, NY, Casita Maria for the Arts Curated by Christine Licata

  • The Other/Underside Bronx Arts Space Bronx ,NY, Curated by Linda Cunningham

  • Hands Up, Down Shoot, St. Louis University Museum of Art, Curated by Freida L .Wheaton

  • I KAN-DO DAT, Skylight Gallery Brooklyn, NY, Curated By Daniel Simmons & Oshun Layne

  • Main Land_MIX The New Museum NYC, Curated by Leenda Bonilla Pagan

    2013

  • Curate NYC Top 150 Entries Artist Rush Art Gallery, NYC, Native American Edition Bronx Museum of the Arts NYC

  • Harlem Art Factory Fest Chashama NYC Bronx Arts Space, Bronx, NY

  • Degree of Privacy Forward Flux Theater Lab, NYC Art with a Purpose, Rush Art Gallery NYC

  • I’ll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, ABC No Rio Gallery, NYC, Curated By Jason Luna

  • Dimensions Variable Multiracial Identity, Rush Arts Gallery, NYC, Curated By Gabriel de Guzman

    2012

  • Wreath Interpretations The Arsenal Gallery, NY

  • The Festival of First People Howland Cultural Center Beacon, NY

  • AiOP Art in Odd Places NYC Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics’ EMERGENYC

  • Art Auction Benefiting Habitat for Humanity of Washington, DC and honoring Peggy Cooper Cafritz

    2011

  • Wave Hill /Bronx Museum “Bronx Calling”

  • The first Biennial Bronx Skate park Exhibit Public Art Project “Mapping Skate Parks’’ Traveling Exhibit, “Land-fill Art”

    2010

  • The Millbrook Gallery, New Hampshire, “Native American Artists in the Northeast”

    2009

  • Longwood Art Gallery, New York, “ANTHEM: An All-American Dystopia” Queens Museum

  • of Art, New York, “Image of Death” Ulster Community College Gallery, New York, “FOOD”

    2008

  • St. Lawrence County Arts Council, New York, “Arts for Healing Art Show” Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania, “Unheard Voices”

    2007

  • Manhattan Borough President’s Office Art Show, New York

    2006

  • The Point Gallery, New York, “The Love and Fear Experience”

    2005

  • “Clotheslines” The Point Gallery, New York

  • “Urban Life” Design School Gallery, New York

  • Bronx Academy for Art and Dance ( BAAD), New York, “Blacktino”

    2004

  • NAACP - Actso Arts Winner NYC / Maryland / Ohio Manhattan Borough Presidents Office, NYC

    2001

  • 4W Circle of Art and Enterprise, New York,

  • “In the Eyes of ” 2000 West Side Arts Coalition, NYC

    1999

  • “People and Fashion”, ICP Gallery, New York